Christian Arming is one of Austriaâ€™s most sought after conductors, highly successful in both the symphonic and operatic fields. Since 2011/12 season he has held the position of Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de LiÃ¨ge, prior to which he was Music Director of the New Japan Philharmonic in Tokyo.

He was born in Vienna and studied conducting under Leopold Hager at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Seiji Ozawa has also been a mentor and strong supporter of his career, introducing him to Boston and Tokyo. At the age of 24, Arming was appointed Chief Conductor of the JanÃ¡Äek Philharmonic in Ostrava, Czech Republic, a position he held from 1996 for six years before being named Music Director of the Lucerne Theatre and Symphony Orchestra from 2002 â€“ 2004.

Since conducting the Czech Philharmonic at the opening concert of the Prague Spring Festival in May 2003, Christian Armingâ€™s career has flourished and he has subsequently conducted many of the top European orchestras including the Deutsches Sinfonieorchester, Radio Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt, Staatskapelle Weimar, Staatskapelle Dresden, Salzburg Mozarteum, Vienna Symphony, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Verdi Milan, Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestre National de Belgique, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and RAI Turin. In May 2008 Arming replaced Georges PrÃªtre at the Academia Santa Cecilia in Rome conducting Mahler Symphony No 5. After much critical acclaim he was re-invited in June 2010 when he conducted Mahler Symphony No 3, which was also a major success.

Outside Europe he has conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra as well as the Cincinnati, Shanghai, Houston, Colorado and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras.

Recent highlights include performances with Tampere Philharmonic, Orquesta Sinfonica de Barcelona, Utah Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Symphony Orchestra and Staatsoper Hamburg and forthcoming engagements include debuts with the New Jersey as well as re-invitations to the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Taiwan Philharmonic, National Polish Radio Orchestra amongst others.

Christian Arming has an extensive discography including works by JanÃ¡Äek and Schubert with the JanÃ¡Äek Philharmonic; Brahms Symphony No 1 and Mahler Symphonies Nos. 3 and 5, Bruckner 7, the Verdi Requiem and Franz Schmidtâ€™s Das Buch mit den sieben Siegeln with the New Japan Philharmonic. His recordings with the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de LiÃ¨ge - Franckâ€™s Symphony in D minor, for which he received the Diapason dâ€™Or, and Wagner Opera arias with baritone/bass Evgeny Nikitin - have both received extremely positive reviews in the international music press.